LEGACY MODERNIZATION - QAT Genesis

Does Your Business Face the Legacy Challenge?

Are you faced with tighter budgets? Do you want to leverage more of your core functionality? Do you need to respond to fast changing business requirements?

Legacy modernization is an essential strategy for creating an agile enterprise. To remain competitive in the marketplace, it is critical that applications be customer centric and agile so they may respond quickly to market, customer, and business demands. Organizations are continually under pressure to reduce costs and improve performance, making them increasingly reluctant to pay for modernization projects that do nothing more than simply migrate the application to the web. This short-sided modernization approach adds little business value and costs precious time, money and resources that could otherwise be spent on business priorities.

In-house development teams are being tasked with modernizing their legacy applications and providing sophisticated and productive web interfaces. Further, business users are demanding more agility and flexibility from the applications than ever before in order to help them stay competitive and adapt to constant change.

It’s easy to recognize the tremendous business value locked in these enterprise systems, thus any modernization approach must recognize and fully leverage that value. QAT has a deep understanding of the issues organizations face with their legacy systems and offers a unique approach to modernization that helps IT and the business to close the gap between what the business needs and what IT delivers.

QAT GENESIS – THE ART OF LEGACY MODERNIZATION

QAT Genesis is a software and services approach that modernizes and gives new life to existing applications. QAT Genesis does this by incrementally transforming the applications into modern web applications that provide high business value features to the organization with less risk, time and total cost of ownership (TCO).

QAT Genesis uses automation in order to rapidly modernize legacy applications and, at the same time, add new high value business features that enable the business to realize significant returns from the modernization. The business will have the control to manage changes in their work process without sending every change back through the traditional development cycle. IT will be more aligned with the needs of the business and will have the tools to rapidly deliver what the business needs.

Reducing risk to the business is a major benefit of QAT Genesis. Risk is reduced in three ways. First, it provides modernization in short-term increments, with each increment being delivered as a portion of a complete solution making it possible to pause if the budget is under pressure. Second, it enables the business with the technology to provide for itself rather than locking it into a long term consulting engagement. Lastly, it allows the most appropriate technology to be integrated into the application based on both the skills of the development group and the capabilities of the various technologies. Having the freedom to integrate other technology as needed is necessary to minimize the technical risk.

QAT Genesis is an art because each modernization is unique and the results can be beautiful. Carrying that a step further, there is no magic formula and the best results come with experience in applying the right balance of tools and techniques.

Most importantly, QAT Genesis delivers true modernization on a realistic budget so you can accomplish your legacy modernization goals.

QAT Genesis is an effective combination of services and software automation.

Software

• QAT WebDaptive – Development / Runtime Web Framework
• Agility BPM™ – Business Process Automation and Orchestration
• QAT DDM – Automated Table Maintenance
• QAT Security – Application Security

Services

• Solution Mapping – Mapping Legacy Application Elements to QAT Genesis
• Training – QAT Software Training
• Process Development – Agility BPM™ Process Development and Mentoring

Modernization Results

The QAT Genesis modernization process results in applications that have not only been modernized in the traditional sense, but also made more open and agile at the same time. Business and IT are more aligned and far more productive as a team by allowing the business to control the work processes and IT to control the database and system integration.

The introduction of business process automation within the legacy modernization is a powerful solution that gives the business users new flexibility to enhance and change their application without relying on IT for everything. The modernized application suddenly becomes more flexible for the business and the cost of the projects are far easier to justify.

Why QAT?

Our approach to legacy modernization is founded on our practical experience in building working products and solutions for enterprises across the globe. We help enterprises make the right technology decisions at various levels in the IT decision making process. When selecting QAT for your legacy modernization project, you get:

Knowledge: A deep understanding of SOA, and web technologies, such as Java, JavaScript, AJAX, .Net, XML, HTML, DHTML and CSS gives QAT the knowledge to help our clients excel with their modernization projects.

Methodology: Effective leveraging of our proprietary and proven methodology to parse a legacy application and map the right modernization technology with each part of the application for the fastest and most effective modernization possible.

Automation: Leveraging our unmatched set of automation tools streamlines the transformation process.

Commitment: Continuous improvement initiatives with an obsession to align with customer objectives.